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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
And respond to the tip of the stylus being pressed. I have played with mine in scribble and if the stylus is close enough to the screen, if I press the tip of the stylus with my fingernail I can draw without touching the screen.
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On tablet PCs, Wacom digitizers track the stylus in 3D space so you can move the cursor around the screen without touching the screen and then activate on-screen objects by touching them. On the digitizer pads for artists, pressure detection is extremely precise and, when used with the right software (Corel Painter 11 is one) can reproduce natural media effects perfectly. An artist friend of mine got a Wacom pad and Painter 11 and the thing is justabout eating all her free time.
But she is producing amazing artwork as good or better as she does with traditional materials but a lot faster.
I don't know what kind of resources processing stylus pressure data would demand (or even if the 903 digitizer can go beyond on-off pressure detection) so I'm not sure a natural media sketchpad is doable but it might be a useful way to easily distinguish between highlighting and annotation input on PDFs and ebooks: light pressure producing a thin-line annotation and high-pressure producing a broad highlight...
(shrug)
There's a lot of room to explore in the ergonomics of natural user interfaces and even Microsoft (TabletPC, Kinect, Surface, Voice Command) can't explore them all. Plenty of room for other players to bring added value to products there. Asus is bringing some of it to the Eee Note pad so maybe Pocketbook can (later) bring some of those capabilities to the 603/903 line.
Or, even better, to a future IQ followup, combining (as some TabletPCs do) both a resistive touchscreen *and* a Wacom Digitizer.
We may yet see some fun toys.